Hamas announced that resistance is the leading solution and the shortest way to free the Palestinian people and achieve its goals.

In a statement issued on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the organization wrote: "The way of negotiations proved to be a failure and has become an additional burden on the shoulders of the Palestinian people.

"The Oslo Accords, Cairo, Wye and Taba, did not succeed in removing one settlement."

Hamas demanded that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cease the security coordination with Israel in Judea and Samaria and stop the sanctions on the Gaza Strip.